A routine?  Webster’s Compact Dictionary gives the following definition:  A regular procedure; customary or prescribed; like or using a routine – routinely.  But here is what is interesting – there is also Routinize – in the dictionary.  It means:  to make routine; reduce to a routine.  So there are a few ways to look at the word – routine.  When you are talking about exercise, which one does the best job of describing what you, yourself, are doing.  Me – I think routine meets what I am trying to do.  A regular procedure, either walking or using my Resistance Chair Exercise System, is good and fits.  Customary – doing it every day no matter what – well I am probably falling a bit short in that arena.  Prescribed – now that fits me to a tee.  I have been “prescribed” by my surgeon to either walk or use the Resistance Chair System every day.  So what about “routinize”?  Is that the same as “routinely”?  Well – you might be surprised to learn they are actually two different things.  Routinize actually means what I quoted above – To make a routine or “reduce” (pardon the pun) to a routine.  So you might set up a routine like I have done, to either walk or use the Resistance Chair System everyday.  But there is no specific time of day given?  That might be the piece I am missing???  Perhaps if I do that, then I have routinized my efforts???  OK – All of this aside – just “doing it” every day is the point of exercising.  Making it a part of your daily schedule is necessary if you are dieting?  Why?  Because exercising daily is something we all need to do to keep in shape and to maintain good health and a good quality of life.  Just ask someone eho has lost excess weight and kept it off – they will tell you exercise is important.  They will tell you all of things they “fixed” about their health when they lost the weight – things like lowering blood pressure, having better blood sugars or even going into remission with diabetes, less/fewer aches and pains in joints etc. etc. etc.  So – now you know about routines and “routinize” and the difference?  Set up your routine, what ever it is and “routinize” it :0)!  Karen/Tikki